Stephen Root is the Senior Audio Director for Criterion Games, an EA Studio, based in Guildford. During his six years at Criterion he has successfully built up one of the most highly regarded audio teams in the industry and ensured that his teams deliver outstanding and critical acclaimed content for Criterion's AAA franchises; namely Burnout and Black.

Before entering the games industry, Stephen trained at Goldsmiths College (part of the London University) and then spent a further 9 years working within the audio industry. Prior to joining Criterion, Stephen was the UK Audio Director for Acclaim Entertainment, where he was responsible for such classics such as Alien Trilogy, Die Hard and the Extreme-G series.

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• Stephen was one of the two members of The Swarm, along with Dominic Glynn.
• According to IMDB, he scored two films: Eye of the Beholder (1995) and The Crate (2007).
• He was responsible for creating the music for the Burnout series, along with Steve Emney, until Criterion Games was acquired by EA. Since then, the games use licensed music.